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British Field Marshal Montgomery fought and won his battles by the book. His own accounts of how he did it are written for soldiers, military historians and armchair strategists. Normandy to the Baltic was Monty's cool, professional account of his considerable part in engineering the defeat of the German armies on the Continent. Now he has backtracked in time and completed his story of World War II with El Alamein to the River Sangro, a brief, coldly competent blueprint of his strategy in North Africa, Sicily and Italy...
...Correspondent Morley Cassidy of the Philadelphia Bulletin reported last week from Stockholm: "It is beginning to seem awfully lonesome up here on the Baltic. Fingering its boy scout knife, Sweden is noticing that the woods all of a sudden seem to be getting terribly dark...
...Lives." Dr. Julius Margolin, of Tel Aviv, whom the Russians arrested in 1940 for "breaking passport regulations" while visiting his native Poland presented the most comprehensive account of conditions in Soviet slave labor camps. He spent five years, successively, at the 48th Square, 2nd Onega division of BBK (Belomor Baltic Canal) Camp in the Karelo-Finnish Republic; the Kruglitsa camp site at Kargopol in the Archangel district; the transit camp site in Kotlas. Reported Margolin: "The entire BBK Camp which spreads from . . . Lake Oneg to the White Sea, embraced in my time several hundred camp sites . . . [All told], Camp...
...that point, Weizmann got a warning. Said his friend Lloyd George: "You have no time to waste. Today the world is like the Baltic before a frost ... it is still in motion. But if it gets set, you will have to batter your heads against the ice blocks and wait for a second thaw." The warning was almost too late. In 1917 the hard-pressed British had had good reason to win Jewish good will, especially in the U.S. and the Austro-Hungarian empire. After the war they had equally good reasons, they thought, to keep their promises...
Ingrid Bergman, who has credited her ruddy good health to a liking for "Baltic herrings and sour milk," got the kind of Christmas present that was obviously just what she wanted: a whole barrel of Baltic herrings, a gift from the Swedish fishery union...